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FIRST GRADE

• Bingo game.
• Provide each student with playing card.
• Shuffle cards and mention the garments.
• The student who first completes and shouts "Bingo" wins.

• Allow a student to leave the classroom.
• Ask him/her to pick a cloud.
• After that ask him/her to decide aname for that cloud.
• He/she has to say the name of his/her cloud.
• Of course students have to use "his" or " her".
• Example: his name is Cloudy.
• You could do it with any object, it is just for practicing possesive pronouns.

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• It is a competition in rows.
• Ask the student sitting in front of the row: What's your favorite movie?.
• Just after asking, start the clock.
• The student in front of the row has to answer the question. The student sitting behind him/her has to say which is his/her favorite movie and then has to say what was the favorite movie of the student in front of him/her.
• After that the student sitting behind the second student of the row do the same and repeat the favorite movies of the students in front of him/her and so on until the student sitting at the end of the row has said his/her favorite movie and all the favorite movies of his/her partners of the row.
• It is something like this: (first student) My favorite movie is "The Matrix". (2nd student) My favorite movie is "Amores perros", his/her favorite movie is the matrix. (3rd student) My favorite movie is "Titanic", his favorite movie is "The Matrix", her favorite movie is "Amores perros". and so on until the student at the end says all their favorite movies in the less amount of time as possible.

• Place the garments on a table.
• It works better if they are students' garments.
• Choose a student to pass in front of the class.
• He/she has to say whom the garments are, example: "this is Maria's sweater".
• Start the clock.
• The garments which have been mentioned have to be taken out of the table.
• At the end, count how many garments the student mentioned.
• The student who mentions whose garments belong to in the few amount of time wins.
• It is recommended to place at least ten garments on the table.

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• A boy and a girl have to pass to the front of the class.
• Hold the book and say: "this is my book".
• After that give the book to the boy and say:"this is his book".
• Then give the book to the girl and say: "this is her book".
• Stand up yourself between the students and say: "this is our book".
• Next both students stand up near from each other and you say: "this is their book".
• After students take notes, give the book to someone else and he/she has to say whom the book belongs to.
• Stress pronunciation on possesives and at the same time point at the person whom the book belongs to.

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• Form teams.
• Provide each team with a visual.
• Students must describe what people are wearing according to the visual.
• They can describe a garment and pass the visual to a partner. Example: First student: She is wearing a blouse. Second student: she is wearing earrings, etc
• All the students have to participate by saying at least one sentence.
• The objective is is that the whole team speaks at least for a full minute.

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• Form two teams: Number the students from the nearest row to the door. You have to count only one and two until the last student of the last row. Note: Students with an even number are team 1 and students with an odd number are team 2.
• Choose a garment.
• Mention the owner: "this is Mario's vest".
• Stand yourself next to the student sitting in front of the row nearest to the door.
• Give him/her the garment by saying: this is Mario's vest.
• This student has to tell his team partner who the garment belongs to.
• The student sitting between them (from the other team) is in charge of checking that the sentence is said correctly.
• The garments are passed by from even to even numbers.
• Take the time since the garment is passed from the first even number to the last one.
• After that, the other team has to do the same.
• The team which passes the garments quicklier wins.

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• Provide your students with pictionaries.
• Choose a student to pass in front of the class.
• That student has to act an action of the pictionary.
• His/her partners have to guess the action he/she is performing. Example: he is writing, she is drinking, etc.
• Try to involve as many students as possible.
• It could be also a competition on teams giving certain amount of time.

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• This activity is a dictation of pictures instead of words.
• Tell your students that you are going to say sentences and they, instead of writing, are going to draw the actions you are saying.
• Start with easy phrases such as: "Juan is studying English".
• If you want to raise the level include places, example: "Juan is studying English at the school".
• Also you can try to dictate an image of a place with many people doing things.

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• Show a visual with a clear action. Example: A basketball player in the court.
• Choose some students using the popsticks (See No. 1 evaluation ).
• Ask "What's he/she doing?" or "what are they doing?".
• Students have to describe the actions.
• This activity can be related to picture dictation or the miming game only to provide more opportunities in a variety of forms.

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• Draw tic tac toe charts on the whiteboard.
• Form teams (suggested 6 or 4).
• Draw a chart for each two teams.
• Write a word in each space of the chart (reading, eating, playing, sitting, etc.)
• Two teams play on one chart. Give turns to participate.
• If a team want to write its cross or doughnut on a space, they must say a phrase, question, or sentence mentioning the word written in that space.

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• Make sentences which include people doing something on small pieces of paper.
• Distribute the sentences among the students.
• They pass to the front of the class and read the sentence they will perform.
• Tape them performing the actions. Include realia such as books, sodas, balls, a guitar, etc.
• Play the tape for feedback (this part is very amusing)
• Ask questions such as What's he/she doing?" as a feeedback.

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• Form teams.
• Provide your students with magazines or newspapers.
• Describe an action in progress. Example: A man who is watching TV.
• Students search for a picture related to that action in the magazines or newspapers.
• The first team who finds the picture has to shout "Found" and stick it on a sheet. Then they write the sentence besides the picture.
• Say as many actions as possible.
• The team which finds more actions wins.

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• Students have to stand up back to back in pairs. They will need paper and a pen.
• One student will be the watcher and will say to his/her partner what he/she is watching. The partner has to write what his/her partner is saying (note: only one of them can see the video).
• The row of watchers have to describe what is happening in the video and the row of writers will try to take notes of what they are listening to.
• Change roles and play another video.
• After seeing the videos they can share notes and create their own story.
• At the end play both videos for them to notice what really happened and check if their stories are similar or different.

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• Draw two interlaced circles.
• Write, above the left circle, "men's clothes". Above the right one"women's clothes". Write "both" above the interlaced.
• Students have to write garments which men wear in the first space and garments which women wear in the corresponding space. Garments that both wear in the interlaced space.

Binational Program of Migrant education.

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16.-A-B DICTATION

Strategy for practicing speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

Function: Descrbing actions in progress.

Preparation: Write two different texts on two cardboards. One in red color and another in black which include descriptions of actions in progress.

Material: Cardboards.

Procedure:

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